Understanding Soil Health | Healthy Soil - Healthy Planet Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- In part one of our series on "Healthy Soil - Healthy Planet" we’ll be exploring some of the many benefits that regenerating our soils can have on the rest of the planet and on us humans!
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The way we interact with the living skin of the earth is fundamental to the health of our world and everything that lives here. Modern farming techniques, deforestation and the use of chemicals have degraded soils all over the world to the extent that the survival of our own species and that of many others is now under threat.
Fortunately, farmers and scientists have been exploring alternative methods over the last 4 decades and today, the Regenerative Movement offers solutions to many of the biggest problems facing humanity, such as ecosystem collapse, soil erosion, pollution and climate change.
We now have proven methods that can deliver measurable results, reversing the damage done by previous generations, while offering farmers a viable alternative.
Panelists: Dan Kittredge, Dr. Stephan Van Vliet, Didi Pershouse, Dr. Elaine Ingham
Host: Dr. Adam Cobb
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The Soil Food Web School’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations to regenerate the soils in their communities. The Soil Food Web Approach can dramatically accelerate soil regeneration projects by focusing on the soil biome. This can boost the productivity of farms, provide super-nutritious foods, protect and purify waterways, and reduce the effects of Climate Change. No background in farming or biology is required for our Foundation Courses. Classes are online & self-paced, and students are supported by highly-trained Soil Food Web School mentors.
Over the last four decades, Dr. Elaine Ingham has advanced our knowledge of the Soil Food Web. An internationally-recognized leader in soil microbiology, Dr. Ingham has collaborated with other scientists and with farmers around the world to further our understanding of how soil organisms work together and with plants. Dr. Ingham is an author of the USDA's Soil Biology Primer and a founder of the Soil Food Web School.
00:00 Healthy Soil Healthy Planet Intro
11:34 Soil Health is Like Human Health
14:46 Soil Organic Matter is Key
19:11 Organisms in the Soil Food Web
33:25 Soil Health Benefits for Farmers, Ranchers, and Growers
43:04 Didi Pershouse
50:57 The Soil Sponge
01:00:25 Plants Regulate The Climate
01:08:39 The Benefits to Human Health
01:29:52 Q&A
#SoilHealth #HealthySoil #SoilFoodWeb
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Hi
I have a question that I think most of farmers have this question too...
It's about biochar.... Is it scientific that biochar in compost can be activated and make the compost better??????? Or it's not proven???
I heard from some farmers that it works and some others say it doesn't work
Is there any organizations of soil food web in Uttarpradesh state in india. Because I am living there and working on regeneration of soil through regenerative agriculture via cover crop and adding organic content in soil.
Cheers for another great free soil health resource! Muchly appreciated.
You're so welcome!
It's like managing all the big and little guys responsible for my plants development. This is cool.
#SaveSoil Let Us Make It Happen!
I could watch this 10 times and learn something new each viewing…just a plethora of info.
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I have a small allotment and have stopped digging because of people like Charles Dowding who have been promoting 'no dig' (I think you say 'Till' in the States) for years. The fact there is a web of life within the soil upon which the vegetables depend, makes perfect sense. I now feel distressed when I see farmers fields being ploughed, thinking of the web being uprooted.
This was so incredible! I learnt so much, thank you 💚
CHiming in after the event to answer "What are you seeing?" Declining rainfall for 30 years and many extreme fire days now in Western Australia.
this gives me hope! you guys are amazing
Wonderfully informative presentations. Thank you all so much for sharing your learning with us and thank you Soil Food Web School for getting this information to the general public. All of this information is so encouraging. We just need to recruit urban and suburban consumers to the job of changing how and where we grow our food and whom should do it. We need to get behind and push for local production, no matter where we are or what growing conditions we have to work with. Of course, it won't be convenient, but it will be more affordable and dependable if consumers DIY their own food supply.
Red Earth Arkansas checking in
Wow, so much amazing information! I was especially interested in the section "organisms in the soil food web". Ive been looking for an explanation on exactly how the plant-soil-fungi/bacteria relationship works and this really helped me understand. Thanks so much!
Suscribed today after live event. From S. Calif. Thanks for sharing! So into soil fertilizer and watering
Hello from Antarctica
Antartica??? Wow! Hello!
It snowed in greater Portland Oregon today April 11th 2022. I've live here 30+ years, we never get snow in April. I live about 40 minutes SE of Portland. We got 3+ inches of snow today. My pear tree was blooming. Weird weather.
Hello from North Wales
Отлично!Познавательно!
🌱Healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people. #ConciousPlanet #SaveSoil
Элейн! Будьте добры,провидите вебинар на тему эндофитных микроорганизмов.
Really nice to see a video that is willing to dip its toe into the science part of this approach to soil health and aeverything related.
I suspect for many of the less scientifically inclined, there should be companion videos that don't touch on science at all, are merely lists of do's and don'ts possibly supported by pictorial evidence.
Great talk thanks for all your hard work 🌞🌞
Inexplicably, thank you.
Enlightening session ! We seek your support towards the global #SaveSoil movement launched by Sadhguru ! Lets Make It Happen !
thank you!
#SaveSoil 😊🌿
Awesome
is there a relationship between soil biology and the schumann frequency?
Amazing question. I believe it is,. Everything is Universe, has consciousness, is working, being, existing on the Consciousness principles.
Thank you for the great question! Please contact us at info@soilfoodweb.com so a member of our Science Team can get back to you.
Any idea if there will a version with subtitles? Some hearing impaired folks were asking.
We're working on getting closed captioning up soon!
There are automatically generated closed captions available now by selecting the "CC" option in the RUclips player. We are editing them now to improve the closed caption experience, and the edited version will be up soon. Enjoy!
I am currently looking for home compostable diapers. All of them have super absorbent polymers inside, advertised as a great compost additive. I am absolutely not convinced that SAP would add any benefits to my compost, but would you say one can ignore the small amount of SAP in a diaper or are they harmful in the long run? What is your opinion about using SAP in industrial agriculture practice?
Old fashionable cotton diapers but they're way too much labor to clean.
Yes, they are. Home compostable diapers seem to be the most convenient choice for us. Unfortunately the only product without SAPs available here in Germany is too small for my kids. Other producers say their SAP would be a valuable additive to my home compost. That sounds to me as dodgy as watering plants with Brawndo. Before giving compostable diapers a try I would like to know if sodium polyacrylate is an ignorable ingredient or some potentially harmful substance preventing growth of useful soil life.
Olga, this is a good question.
I have recently heard two big presentations where they discuss how certain mushrooms can compost plastic. I think the best thing is to decrease our dependence on plastic but sometimes that is not possible. Perhaps being able to find a way to compost the plastic we do use is one of the answers. The more I learn about nature, I can see that the answers are a there.
My mom used cotton diapers at home but switched to regular diapers for outings. This provided a nice balance.
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There must be a study or article about that. Could depend on the polymers, not all polymers are petroleum/plastic based, there are also organic polymers that can decompose. But if starch is merely used as a binder of "forever plastic" particles, that would be bad... it's not enough to simply decompose to the point you don't see a diaper object anymore, you want all its materials to decompose to basic elements if possible.
In Commonwealth countries, I believe, managing soil is challenging. Forests and soil are no longer alive. Every day, they do air spray. Manipulating the weather. In many parts of Southern Ontario, where I dwell, insects and birds are nearly extinct. There isn't any fresh air. Since February, we haven't had any sunshine. In British Columbia, the government chopped down all mature trees. Flooding and wildfires are two of the most common natural disasters in British Columbia. Australia was subjected to the same weather manipulation this year
Consider a dialogue with Dr Zach Bush
Is there any research collating soil conditions and the toxicity of plants?
( Oxalates, Phytic Acids, Lectins, Sappinins, etc.)
Thank You
Thank you for the great question! Please contact us at info@soilfoodweb.com so a member of our Science Team can get back to you.
I did an Internet search on that recently and didn't find any rigorous studies... Only anecdotes and warnings issued by the manufacturers of the herbicides
same here
Hi
I have a question that I think most of farmers have this question too...
It's about biochar.... Is it scientific that biochar in compost can be activated and make the compost better??????? Or it's not proven???
I heard from some farmers that it works and some others say it doesn't work
Thank you for the great question! Please contact us at info@soilfoodweb.com so a member of our Science Team can get back to you.
IMO there is no need for biochar in a properly executed hot (thermophylic) compost pile. Biochar is created through heat in an anaerobic process while hot compost does at least as good a job through an aerobic process. Using hot composting, I've reduced wooden objects up to 2" like decently thick branches into mostly if not all carbon. There's no reason I know of to add biochar to hot composting but there's nothing wrong if you still want to do it.
As for vermicompost, that's a bit more debatable. Personally, I see no reason to do so since vermicompost already holds an incredible amount of water and has a magnificent microbiome which are reasons why biochar is used. Again, I don't see any reason why someone could add biochar to their worm bin if they wanted to, but I'd recommend instead adding biochar later as a separate soil amendment rather than taking up space in the worm bin. But for convenience... Who knows? Maybe someone would rather just produce one product that includes biochar.
In any case, note that biochar by itself is not going to make your soil better instantly like vermicompost or even hot compost that has already begun to be repopulated with beneficial aerobic bacteria, nematodes and fungi after its final cool down. Biochar's main benefit is water retention and an open structure which invites air circulation which are the two essential ingredients for life, including microbes. You need to give it time to populate with microbes from its natural environment, maybe at least a couple weeks. Don't expect to see results instantly like hot compost and vermicompost which are already heavily populated.
ECOSYSTEM BEST MANAGEMENT PRINCIPALS & PRACTICE. COLLABORATION FOR HEALTHY CLEAN WATER, AIR, SOIL, FOOD & OCEAN FOR HUMANS & NATURE. HEALTHY SOIL PRODUCES HEALTHY FOOD FOR MORE PEOPLE. CHEMICALS KILL SOIL.
I’m worried about the heavy metals coming from chemtrails. Is their anything we can do?
Yeah, combined with glyphosate in the precipitation, across the nation, that makes for quite the toxic atmosphere fallout
Have the same thoughts. Looking for some ideas, what to do.💛🐝🍀
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How can I Test my food quality! I am a back yard gardener! I have been only fertilizing my gardens (200sq.Ft.X4) naturally with remnants,( evolving), for the last 3 years. But I have a secret understanding and I believe a (co-chair with Sunlight) as a primary plant parameter. This enhances plants metabolism enabling enhanced resistance to mites, aphids, thrips, and fungus nats, and more> I need to check plants nutritional quality, to get a base line now, before I get too much better, Think Movie "Phenomenon" I can play George.
IIRC you can use a refractometer to do your own testing for levels of sugars? Such devices can be very expensive but decent low end non-digital devices can work well and cost only about $15. Or, there should be a number of services you can send a leaf sample to and they'll do the analysis for you.
....IMHO: IT SEEMS THAT SOMEONE, SHOULD, BE ABLE TO COMPILE SOME SORT OF A "GUIDELINE" BOOK(LET), THAT CAN GREATLY HELP GARDENERS, (THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE FULL ACCESS TO HIGHLY DETAILED SCIENTIFIC SOIL TESTING, (ON A FREQUENT BASIS...AS MOST "FARMERS" CAN WRITE OFF THOSE COSTS, AS "BUSINESS EXPENSES")...TO "SEE, OR GUESS MORE ACCURATELY, ABOUT WHAT THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO TO BOOST THE HEALTH OF THEIR SOILS, OR, TO IMPROVE THEIR "NATIVE BIODIVERSITY, AND SOIL ACTIVITY....(?!)
UNFORTUNATELY, VERY, VERY FEW HOMEOWNERS, OR PROPERTY OWNERS BOTHER TO ACTUALLY "COMPOST" ANY OF THEIR "YARD WASTES"!!! MOST PEOPLE BAG IT UP, AND SHIP IT OFF TO THE LOCAL LANDFILL, OR "MUNICIPAL COMPOST SITE,... NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN...
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Awesome
It's time we act and work to #savesoil 🌱💚🌏🤎
Let's go!